I managed to learn a lot from Gary Burton's Introduction to Improvisation online class offered by Berklee via Coursera. If you can catch this course, I would recommend it.
Even though I'm not really a sight-reader, I managed to get through the whole course and made some real improvements. Gary's video lessons were short and to the point and there is a discussion forum with the course which was beneficial.
During the course I put together this giant PDF of the scales and modes Gary outlined, along with his decision tree for what scale to play over what chord. Some of the material is repeated in different ways.
Even though I'm not really a sight-reader, I managed to get through the whole course and made some real improvements. Gary's video lessons were short and to the point and there is a discussion forum with the course which was beneficial.
During the course I put together this giant PDF of the scales and modes Gary outlined, along with his decision tree for what scale to play over what chord. Some of the material is repeated in different ways.
| jazz_modes_scales_ii.pdf |
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